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Soldier killed in PKK bomb attack in district under curfew

Police fired tear gas, water cannon and plastic bullets to disperse a crowd chanting “Long Live Kurdistan” in Istanbul’s Taksim square, Reuters witnesses said.

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DIYARBAKIR, Turkey Turkish tanks on Tuesday pounded Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) targets in Cizre, a southeastern town at the heart of a military operation that the army said has killed 127 Kurdish militants in a week.


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Five people had been injured during clashes with police, including a 14-year-old child who later succumbed to his wounds at Dicle University Medical Faculty Hospital in Diyarbakir.


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Meanwhile, protests took place Sunday in Istanbul and in Diyarbakir, the de facto capital and largest city in the Kurdish southeast, as protesters demanded an end to the military operations.

Counter-terrorism forces in Turkey have killed at least two women in an operation against a cell of suspected militants in the city of Istanbul.

Citing its own investigations and data collected by local human rights groups, Human Rights Watch has issued a new report today warning of growing civilian death tolls in Turkey’s military crackdown on the ethnic Kurdish southeast. The populations of entire neighborhoods have had their water and electricity cut during state-imposed curfews and have been left without access to food.

Security forces launched a new offensive in the mainly Kurdish region last week after President Tayyip Erdogan pledged to root out militants.

The report warned that civilian casualties are likely to “rise steeply” as a result of the heavy fighting.

In another incident on Tuesday in Sirnak’s Cizre district, a local village guard said the PKK terrorists shot dead a 53-year-old mother of nine at her home.

The escalating violence has dashed hopes for the resumption of peace talks between the state and PKK, which have fought a three-decade conflict that has killed more than 30,000.

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Ankara is also responsible for making the “life for many people in southeastern towns and cities unbearable”, Sinclair-Webb said. It also urged Kurdish armed groups to “stop digging trenches planted with explosives” to seal off their neighborhoods from security forces.

A woman walks past a building damaged during clashes between Turkish security forces and Kurdish militants in the southeastern town of Silvan Turkey Dec. 7 2015